Data and the City

Rob Kitchin is Professor and European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator at Maynooth University, Ireland. He is also (co)Principal Investigator of the Programmable City project, the Building City Dashboards project, the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). Tracey P. Lauriault is Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. She is also Research Associate with the Programmable City project at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre at Carleton University.Gavin McArdle is Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. He is also Research Associate with the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) and the Programmable City project at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsChapter 1 Data and the City by Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Gavin McArdlePart I: Data-Driven CitiesChapter 2 A city is not a galaxy: Understanding the city through urban data by Martijn de WaalChapter 3 Data about cities: Redefining big, recasting small by Michael BattyChapter 4 Data-driven urbanism by Rob KitchinPart II: Urban DataChapter 5 Crime data and analytics: Accounting for crime in the city by Teresa ScassaChapter 6 Data provenance and possibility: thoughts towards a provenance schema for urban data by Jim Thatcher and Craig DaltonChapter 7 Following data threads by James Merrick WhiteChapter 8 Sticky data - context and friction in the use of urban data proxies by Dietmar OffenhuberPart III: Urban Data TechnologiesChapter 9 Urban data and city dashboards: Six key issues by Rob Kitchin and Gavin McArdleChapter 10 Sharing and analysing data in smart cities by Pouria Amirian and Anahid BasiriChapter 11 Blockchain City: Economic, social and cognitive ledgers by Chris Speed, Deborah Maxwell and Larissa PschetzChapter 12 Situating data infrastructures by Till StraubeChapter 13 Ontologizing the City by Tracey P. LauriaultPart IV: Urban Data Cultures and PowerChapter 14 Data cultures, power and the city by Jo BatesChapter 15 Where are data citizens? by Evelyn RuppertChapter 16 Beyond quantification: a role for citizen science and community science in a smart city by Mordechai (Muki) HaklayIndex

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